Father’s Speech to Leaders at North Garden, Kodiak, Alaska on September 8, 1998
From the beginning of my life I clearly knew and felt that life in the spirit world was real That is why I could come through an entire course of persecution and indemnity, and all manner of suffering and struggle. To me, all the hardship was more conceptual, but life in the spirit world was real. I knew my destination and purpose clearly; they were unchangeable and already fixed. That is why it did not matter what opposition or persecution there was. We have to perceive and accept life in the spirit world as a reality more tangible than the physical world we see when we wake up in the morning. Of course the spirit world is vast, immeasurable in fact. But when you go to the spirit world you do not just go where people of only your own nationality are gathered together. It is a matter of your spiritual level. British, German, American, Korean, Japanese, –everyone with the same spiritual level will come and dwell there together. Of course Germans and Americans do not have the same back-ground in the earthly world; but when you enter the spirit world, if you belong to the same level, communication will naturally take place there between your hearts. The beauty of heart will be mutually shared. Even if you are not asked to unite, there will be a natural process of becoming one with each other. Even if someone lived on earth ten thousand years ago, as soon as you meet that person-as long as you have mind and heart communication-you can be united.
What about you? Do you accept and experience my teaching as a reality or as a concept? Of course you say reality, but do you practice my teaching as a reality in your daily life? Once we truly understand this teaching as reality, then our earthly life is like a shadow of our original, eternal life. There is no boundary or division in the spirit world, so when you enter that world your mind will immediately communicate with whoever is on the same level as you. That is the natural process there.
GOD’S PARTNER IN TRUE LOVE
Your mind never gets old. But what about your physical body? The longer you live, the younger your mind will become. Suppose you go to the spirit world and there are billions and billions of spirits there. When God looks at them do you think He is expecting to see ugly people? No. Those who come there with a beautiful mind and beautiful heart will glow as a handsome and beautiful man and woman.
Both men and women should be guided and instructed by God through their prayers. Originally Adam and Eve were not to have fallen, but were to have lived their lives in an eternal direct relationship with God. Because of the fall of man, however, they lost that privilege. God cannot perfect His own true love. He needs human beings as His partners. God is like a man-a subject being. We have life, love, lineage and conscience, but we cannot create them. Nor can we experience their existence by ourselves alone. We cannot see them, and we cannot touch them. So how can we know about them? Only through having our partner, our object. As soon as we have our partner, then our life will be activated, our love will be fully utilized, lineage will be flowing and our conscience will start to function. The same principle applies to God. When mind and body are completely united-in other words, when there is absolute balance there-then we do not feel their existence. That is why God needs his partner in order to perfect Himself. Once we become united in oneness with God through true love, then we provide freedom, peace and happiness to God. And perfection too. When we omit or eliminate our love partner, everything comes down to the point of zero. Nothing exists. There is no value. Man absolutely needs woman as his partner, and vice versa. There has to be an absolute relationship between husband and wife. There is no room whatsoever for homosexuality or free sex. These are the most undesirable things.
The family that is centered on God’s true love will continue through eternity in God’s true love. Therefore, whatever we may do, wherever we may go, our mood should be vertically centered. It should be different from the mood of people in the secular world.
THE 4.4 JEOL DECLARATION
[Father asks Rev. Peter Kim to explain the 4.4 declaration:]
My explanation may not be perfect, but I will share what I have understood. Up until now, Heaven, God and True Parents did not have full authority to push Satan back, or to even attack Satan or the satanic world. Heaven’s attitude and True Parents’ attitude have been embracing and forgiving, to somehow manage God’s providence so that it could continue. But now, since this is the time of transition, the time has come in which God and True Parents can push Satan away. In other words, I can even pray for the destruction of satanic elements in certain areas, or attack Satan to eliminate or eradicate him. That kind of time is here. In other words, True Parents and those on God’s side can take the initiative to lead and control this world, instead of letting Satan do so, and take back ownership of what belongs (unrightfully) to Satan. This is the very essence of the 4.4 Jeol today. 4.4, forty-four, or actually “Four Four.” That is why we call this the “Sa Sa Celebration Day.” This number 44 stems from the addition of the numerical values of September 8, 1998. Adding together 1, 9, 9, 8, 9, and 8 makes 44. The first 4 stands for the four position foundation in the spirit world centering on Adam and Eve and the second 4 represents the four position foundation in this physical world centering on Adam’s children. These dual four position foundations represent heaven and earth, and the family. That is why God and True Parents can now do this.
[Father:] Satan cannot interfere in God’s providence any more. Up until now, neither God nor I could pray for the destruction of the satanic world. Because God has taught us to love our enemies, even God could not dare to destroy the satanic world. I could not even pray for that purpose. Had I done that I would have had to pay an enormous amount of indemnity. In other words, my life has been one of loving the enemy. Now God’s providence has reached the national level through this blessing campaign based upon all these families throughout the world. That is why God’s sovereignty can have the initiative in this world, and why we can push the satanic world back. The blessing has become a world level blessing, not merely on the national level any longer. All the blessed couples in the world, hundreds of millions of couples, are engrafted to True Parents’ family through true love. That is why Satan cannot interfere any more. This reality is now on a global scale.
At the time of Adam and Eve, the Adam’s level four position foundation and Adam’s children’s level four position foundation were to have been established centering on God, but they were not. Centering on True Parents and True Family, these four position foundations have now been established. The present time is thus one of transition. Already more than 300 million couples have been pre-blessed, including the 120 million couples who received the blessing at Madison Square Garden. In total there are over 300 million pre-blessed couples. Our goal is 360 million couples. Three hundred million is much more than half. The formation and growth stages are already over and we have reached the perfection stage of the 360 million couples. This is why God and True Parents can now take the initiative and attack the satanic world.
In Adam’s family, three generations were to have been united and perfected. Now we have already reached more than two thirds of our goal in the blessing of 360 million couples. God and True Parents are therefore now in this position of authority. When we talk about three generations, we are talking about God’s generation, Adam and Eve’s generation, the parental generation, and their children’s generation. If we divide the 360 million couples we have already blessed into three different stages of 120 million each, we are already beyond the two thirds point. That is why this morning True Parents declared the unity of the spiritual world and the
physical world by the proclamation of Sa Sa Jeol. Once both these realms are connected we can embrace the entire world. False parents destroyed this world. Now the True Parents have appeared and have rebuilt and reformed it. True Parents have perfected this world and offered it to God. That is the significance of the proclamation of Sa Sa Jeol this morning.
This means we are now entering an era in which we do not need an indemnity course. But for whatever mistake or sin you commit there will be immediate punishment. We know that Adam and Eve made a great mistake more than 6,000 years ago, yet the course of indemnity has continued on. We are now entering the era, however, in which you have to face immediate consequences for the mistakes you make. You do not wait. This is what we call the realm of direct dominion. The heavenly constitution and law will loom over everyone.
That is why, in this new era, if you make a mistake you may suddenly meet with an unexpected accident. If I had stopped living this providential way, I would have suffered all manner of accidents. My body would have become paralyzed or cramped-some sign would have appeared. Thus, I have no choice but to go this providential way. I have no other choice but to go forward. I know that my steps will influence heaven and earth, family, children … and everyone.
We know that in the Old Testament era indemnity was paid through material things. In the New Testament era people were offered, sacrificed and martyred; and in the Completed Testament era, the root will be eliminated. You yourself will have to deal with the consequences of your mistakes, no one else. In this kind of era, if you make a mistake, no matter how hard you try to pray you will not be able to pray. If you make one wrong move or speak one wrong word, it may take six months to correct your mistake. You did not know that, did you? That is why we must study the spirit world.
THE VALUE OF HOON DOK HAE
Who do you think is the one who is keeping up with Hoon Dok Hae the most? It is God. Think about it: these fifteen volumes are filled with my own words and teaching. Then why do you think I am putting so much effort into studying these books myself? As I am in the absolute subject position, then you should be in the object position. By studying my own Hoon Dok Hae books now I can build harmony with you. I can build a bridge.
So you cannot become the subject. I am not the subject either-God is. Only when I become one with God centering on absolute faith, love and obedience, will I then myself be in the subject position with God, and then I will be the subject of all the blessed families.
When you study the Hoon Dok Hae books, you should be able to find my image in the books, spiritually. While you are studying these books, you should also be able to see your own pictures or images as my objects, as my children, as couples. There should be oneness between subject and object. So we should study these books very hard, putting our heart, mind and soul into it so that even when God and True Parents look at these books they should be able to see your pictures there. Even when you sit down with your eyes closed, praying and meditating, you should be able to see me, and God, and everything contained here, just as in real life. That is the way you can progress rapidly in your spiritual life.
You should attain this kind of experience. Even while meditating and praying you should be able to reach me spiritually and share many things with me. Only through having had this kind of experience will you be elevated instantly to the level at which you can deal with God directly when you enter the spiritual world. Because the perfection of human beings in this physical world was lost, we have to restore the perfection of human beings during the short span of our life in this world, before we go to the spiritual world. That is why we need the Hoon Dok Hae materials, the scriptures of the Completed Testament era. The number of volumes of my speeches has already reached over 300. The Hoon Dok Hae books contain the essence of these 300 volumes. No one summarized these volumes, but key sections, paragraphs and sentences were excerpted and compiled according to the subject matter.
If you read my prayers, before 1960 I prayed in the name of the lord. Lord in Korean is ju. The Chinese character is the symbol for a king, above which there is a hat. It means owner, or master. I prayed in the name of the Lord. Then, after 1960 I prayed in the name of True Parents. Beginning in 1961, by mobilizing blessed couples I started this global providence.
We have to restore everything. When we look at this country of America one sad thing is that so many children do not experience their own parents’ love, because they live under the supervision of their stepmother or stepfather. There are some children who have as many as nine stepmothers or stepfathers because their parents have kept remarrying. How can they say which one is his or her father or mother? Nine! There is no way for them to feel the realm of God’s heart in that kind of family environment. It may take forty years of training for such children to feel God’s love and heart. When we study Korean history and tradition, we feel like the Korean nation was really prepared for God’s providence. It has been very much parallel to God’s providential way and tradition, with the three objects purpose and four-position foundation naturally existing in their families, with three generations living together.
Grandparents are like the ambassadors of God, and also of the past. Parents are like the ambassadors of the present world and children represent the future world. God did not have the chance to love His grandchildren. Adam and Eve didn’t have the chance to love their own children. That is what is called the human fall. The same thing is happening now in the American family. Many families in America don’t care about their grandparents. They do not live together, and even when grandparents want to visit their children’s families they have to make an appointment. They are abandoned in senior citizens homes. Many of those grandparents are often in tears because they miss their grandchildren. The love relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is even stronger than that between parents and children.
Those whose parents or grandparents live together with you, raise your hands. [To one member:] What is your nationality? [German.] You must have a very conservative, old-fashioned family. Your grandfather is like an ambassador from heaven-God’s representative. Your father and mother are representatives of the present king and queen and your children represent the future world. These are what are called the three kingships. Sa Sa Jeol means Adam’s four position foundation and Adam’s children’s four-position foundation. Once these two four position foundations are established in one family, it is like the seed for ideal families in the whole world. It is just a matter of multiplying this ideal true family. That is what is now happening through the blessings. Adam and Eve call God “Father.” Adam’s children also call God “Father.” When they are on the horizontal level their relationship is like that of brothers. Of course, vertically there are different stages or levels-grandparents, parents and children, but when we put them on a horizontal level under God they are all on the same level as brothers.
We must approach Hoon Dok Hae as being more important than mealtime. We should also enjoy it just as we enjoy our leisure activities. While you are reading the teachings in these Hoon Dok Hae books you have to be able to score your daily life accordingly. “Oh, my score is about 50% or 60% in relation to this teaching.” Your mind knows that. Once you reach the goal of restoring and gaining 160 or 185 spiritual children as blessed couples, and you then register yourselves as tribal messiahs with these families as your tribe, you are then meant to write your biography, explaining your life.
Study of the Hoon Dok Hae materials should be tastier than our food and more real than our daily life. We may for-get about eating, but we should not forget about Hoon Dok Hae. What do you think? Should we only do Hoon Dok Hae once a day or three times, just like having three meals a day? Since we eat three times a day, we should do Hoon Dok Hae at least once more, that is, four times a day. Carry around the Hoon Dok Hae books with you all the time, and read them either before or after your meals and then again before you go to bed-at least four times a day. That way your eternal life will keep developing. When you miss Hoon Dok Hae, you should feel as if you are suffocating. You should feel that your life is as dark as before a thunderstorm. Hoon Dok Hae is more important than your prayer, because the Hoon Dok Hae materials can perfect you.
What we have to understand about studying the Hoon Dok Hae materials is that I spoke these words more than forty or fifty years ago. I was at points of life or death, desperation or crisis. There was persecution and opposition, all kinds of trials; thus I was truly desperate in my prayer and in giving this truth. God was therefore with me all the time. Even when we study this material now we can experience God’s presence as it was right at that moment. This means God can come down to our level and help us grow.
Forty or fifty years ago when I spoke about the possibility of things such as exist nowadays-the Internet, faxes and email communication systems-people laughed at me, saying I was strange or crazy. They did not understand about True Parents. When True Parents are here on earth their teaching and words should be able to be spread throughout the entire world within one hour. Even now, when I give you certain directions or proclaim something, you sometimes do not believe in it 100 percent. For instance, when I first spoke about the 360 million couples blessing, no one even within the Unification Church believed it. Only God and I believed it. Even Rev. Kwak, who is in charge of the worldwide Unification Church, could not truly believe it. He was stunned.
THE PROVIDENCE OF THE BLESSING
Speaking of the blessing, all the spirits, including our ancestors and the saints and sages in the spirit world, should also receive the blessing in order to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. That is why at the June 13 blessing I opened the gates of heaven and hell. I took responsibility. Neither God nor Satan could do it. If God could have, He would have done so in the Garden of Eden. Even Dr. Sang Hun Lee testified that I am in the position to hold heaven with my right hand and earth with my left hand, and turn them right side up. Now when the late Dr. Sang Hun Lee says this we almost believe it, because we know the reality and see what God is doing here in this world. In the past, however, when I spoke about this kind of providence no one believed it. Dr. Lee testified that even Jesus and Moses and other providential figures in the spirit world were living alone there, not having been blessed. They need True Parents there. We are not just talking about theory or logic here; this is reality. Do you understand me?
You all look healthy and handsome, but the Westerners all have the tendency to pursue extreme individualism and privacy. American law is public law. Laws should exist to protect the family rather than the individual, the nation rather than the family, the world rather than the nation, but the American legal system does not go that far-only to the national level. Americans do not think about the world but only pay attention to their own country.
THE BEAUTY OF THE NATURAL WORLD
America and other superpower nations now have nuclear arsenals that can destroy the entire earth a hundred times over. Suppose there were a big earthquake-a nuclear inferno could take place. Think about how fearful the future world is. Who can protect such a world? Everyone has hope. Even God cannot prevent these things from happening. Only True Parents can. So we must unite the world quickly.
Only fifty years have passed since World War II, but think about the degree of air and water pollution that has occurred. Many species of birds and fish have died out. If this trend continues, I predict that humankind will not last more than three centuries, about 300 years. That is not so long from now. All existing living things would disappear. At some point down the road mankind might have to do away with vast cities and go back to a simple lifestyle, living together with nature. That is why I give so much love to nature in places like Pantanal and Kodiak. The Alaskan air and water are still among the cleanest in the world. Think about how poetic it looks: on top of the mountain peaks the snow caps still remain, and below there is greenery, with all kinds of flowers blooming and birds and insects singing, creating an orchestra. Fishing in the water-what a wonderful thing to do! Many varieties of fish are living there, jumping … how beautiful they are. Do you like this idea? The first time you visit here, you can know such a natural environment, experience that beautiful concept as reality, and share this beautiful view of life.
May God bless you.